Advancing Africa Agriculture Transformation: Outcomes of the AARIEIs High-level Panel at Africa Extension Week 2023.
The Africa-wide Agriculture Extension Week (AAEW2003) Conference, held on 27-28 in Abuja Nigeria, marked a significant milestone in the collective pursuit of the Abidjan II Action Plan for strengthening the…
CCARDESA Builds Capacity of Angola Lesotho APPSA Scientists on Experimental Designs, Data Management and Statistical Analysis
Sixty-four (64) Scientists leading Research and Development (R&D) sub-projects under the Agricultural Productivity Programme for Southern Africa (APPSA) in the Republic of Angola and the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho successfully…
Nigeria Hosts Sixth Africawide Agriculture Extension Week 2023:
By Grace Musimami ‘We cannot attain our goal of the “Africa we want” and the Agenda 2063, if agriculture extension is still looked at as last option support to Africa’s…
Malawi hosts 7th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week 2025
Attended by participants from over 12 African countries, the 7th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension week i being held at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe Malawi. The 5-days Event, which started on May…
Access Agriculture Wins FAO’s 2021 Innovation Award
By Doreen Mpofu-SouthAfrica Access Agriculture has won 2021 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Federal Government of Switzerland award for the 2021 Annual International…
ILO Awards $300,000 to West Nile AgriPrenuers to Boost Cassava & SimSim Production
International Labour Organization has awarded Ten Agriprenuer business firms with $30,000 each as a grant from the Netherlands government to boost production and value addition to cassava and Simsim Value chains…
Nile Breweries Installs Rural Weather Stations In Uganda
Flora Aduki and Grace Musimami Weather prediction is a challenge that many farmers suffer especially those growing crops like barley. According to Livingstone Tumusiime, a farmer in Bufundi Sub country,…
Germany Government Injects 2.3million EUR in FAO’s Fight Desert Locusts
Agatha Ayebazibwe-FAO The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has made a contribution of 2.3 million EUR to boost efforts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United…
AUDA-NEPAD, Ecobank Group Commit Funds For Africa’s Micro SMEs
The AUDA-NEPAD programme will pool African resources, capabilities, financing, market access and technology, to help achieve a continental response to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. By: Kezirone Wokubira The African…
AGRA releases Africa covid 19: situation reports.
FOOD INSECURITY GROWS AS COVID-19 SPREADS ACROSS AFRICA Grace Musimami The Alliance for Green Revolution in African AGRA has launched a situation report bringing together timely information from its headquarter…